Why Time Zones Exist And What Came Before They Were Established
Published 2024-03-05
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Time zones are an incredible piece of geography! Every region of the world has a time attached to it that's globally accepted. But this wasn't always the case! In fact, about a hundred years ago each and every location had its own time creating a lot of issues. As such, time zones started to become a thing and the rest is, as we say, history!
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All Comments (5)
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Great podcast. I started watching around 4am (your time) but I'm 3 hours ahead. One (very common) mistake is adding an "s" to Saving in Daylight Saving Time but everyone does it. Hopefully we'll get rid of it soon so it won't matter!
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A channel called Flying The Nest (who live in Australia) released a video of them going to the Cook Islands and they said that the flight from Sydney was six hours long, they left on a Sunday at 9pm and arrived in the Cook Islands at 6am on Sunday again. So they got to experience Sunday twice because they crossed the international date line. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTkCxojaDM&ab_channel=FlyingTheNest
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Nepal is a weird place. It is 57 years ahead of us as they use the Nepali calendar, which is based on the Bikram Sambat and is a widely used ancient calendar of the Hindu tradition. Ethiopia is another weird place as it uses the Ethiopian Calendar, which is based upon the ancient Coptic Calendar and is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar.
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In my job I deal with GMT/UTC time way too much and it's quite annoying having everything a quarter of a day ahead of me,
